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... lock, we were not so lucky and had to wait as a barge locked through.The wait was long enough that we decided to drop anchor in the channel since the alternative was twirling round and round in small circles for an hour. Believe me, you do not want to go outside of the marked channel in the Tenn-Tom. It is shallow and filled with stumps and who knows what. Fortunately, the third lock was smooth sailing although we did pass that scamp of a barge that kept ...

... allowed us to photograph his beautiful red truck. We reached starkville at 10:00 pm and visited with Maria and Ismael, friends from Spain. Maria is going through a veterinary neurology residency at Mississippi State. She had made arrangements for us to spend the night at a local equestrian subdivision. Quince had a huge round pen with lots of grass and we slept in the horse trailer. Looking forward to having breakfast with Maria and Ismael in the am. Plan to head to Arkansas ...

... had been delayed at the lock we would have not been able to make it to our next marina at Columbus Ms. I took some video showing what we saw on the chart for the Bashi creek anchorage and what we actually saw when we passed it.

Along the way we passed some interesting "yard art" on shore: A phone booth and a really nice totem pole and the man we met back at Midway who is cruising down the Tenn-Tom in ...

... You're the guy who's riding a bicycle to Florida. Do you remember a man named John from Amory? He is the Maintenance Supervisor at the Heritage Inn & Suites." Larry responded with a yes. Faye then exclaimed that they are dating and had told her all about us! It turned out that John was involved in our route planning to Columbus the day before. After we got situated in our new room, we headed out to a coffee ...